Red to red black to black yellow to yellow and blue to blue. Small wires on contactor wired as directed in print. Can I swap the blue and black wires on contactor??
P500 Winch running backwards
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NTCPrezJB
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Yellow and blue typically go to winch. Red and black typically to battery (or power source). Switch the yellow and blue at the winch or the contact block (not both obviously) and it should work as you intend.
All the power cables go to where they are supposed to. The winch yellow goes to yellow on contactor and blue to blue. Contactor and winch are color coded. Same for Black and red to battery and contactor. My only question is regarding the small 16 ga control wires that go go the winch contactor. Can I swap the little control wires to make it work opposite?
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Sorry my contact block has the lead for those under an epoxy seal. I’d guess that switching them would solve your problem though. You could always do a simple test light verification before you do it though. Presumably blue has power on in or out and black on the opposite switch throw. If so switching them will do it.
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The other thing before switching the wires, you could unspool all of the cable, and keep holding “in” until it is reeled back up correctly.
Did anyone ask the OP what direction the cable is spooled? It should be coming off the bottom of the spool and if It’s not it will run backwards.
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That picture makes sense to me. Put some thick leather gloves on, unspool all the wire, then hold the in button with tension on the rope till it’s correct.
That’s why it’s running backwards, it should come off the bottom or at least that’s how every winch I have ever owned needed to be spooled. Having the cable come off the bottom puts less stress on the mounting bolts.
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The Honda/Warn 2500 spools off the top in the factory mounting.
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When all else fails, the easiest path is to switch the leads on the winch itself, they determine the direction.
Does that mount the winch upside down? To clarify my statement I alway want the cable coming off the same side of the spool as the winch mounting bolts. If the Honda mount has the winch positioned with the mounting bolts up then the cable should come off the top.
This is from the KFI instructions. I don’t think it really matters too much but having it come off the spool correctly does reduce the leverage on the mounting bolts and it changes the direction of the winch.
As long as the drum free spools in both directions when it is disengaged.
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